with further research I have found that a lot of people had problems with After Effects CS6 on mavericks ( i am running 10.9.2) and eventually found a link for an update which is supposed to fix the problem After Effects CS6 (11.0.3) update: fixes for crashes and other bugs, ability to run on Mac OS X v10.9 (Mavericks) | Af…
but I have not yet successfully installed the program so I'm not sure how I can use an update without already having the program installed on my machine. Can someone explain this to me? or does anyone have a link to a trial version of after effects cs6 11.03.?
I downloaded AE from this page